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Walworth, Mary E.

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The language of Rapa Iti: Description of a language in change.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The language of Rapa Iti: Description of a language in change./
Author:	Walworth, Mary E.
Description:	336 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-01A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3717246
ISBN:	9781321966602

The language of Rapa Iti: Description of a language in change.
Walworth, Mary E.

The language of Rapa Iti: Description of a language in change. - 336 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2015.

This dissertation presents the results of a language documentation project carried out in Rapa Iti, the southernmost island of French Polynesia. It first highlights the indigenous language of Rapa Iti ("Old Rapa") as an endangered and under-documented Polynesian language and provides the first linguistic description of it. Second, this dissertation seeks to demonstrate that the language spoken today on Rapa Iti is a language undergoing rapid and visible change. Very little of Old Rapa is still spoken, the modern language ("Reo Rapa") has become heavily Tahitianized, and a "new" Rapa ("New Rapa") is emerging from revitalization efforts through which the Rapa Iti people are striving to define a unique Rapa identity.

ISBN: 9781321966602Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

The language of Rapa Iti: Description of a language in change.
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